"This thing isn't popular anymore, we need to remake it so the kids know what they're missing!"
Why are people suprised that movies are performing poorly during a pandemic?
The original movie still holds up. There was no reason for a remake.
I like this tweet...
Lot of factors at play here, but I think we can't underestimate the possibility that "You folks will love the second faithful movie adaptation of a Broadway musical from 1957!" was not an enticing pitch to a 2021 audience.
The broadway musical is also an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet as the cherry on the cake.
Who wouldn't want to hear that untold story for the 100,001st time?
No one is nostalgic for this era except half-in-the-grave boomers.
Show me a punk musical in the 1980's. I'll fucking spend 7 days straight in the theater masked up.
I’m pretty sure the advertising of this is just shit, I think I have only heard of one thing on it before this post. Also who the fuck cares.
I haven't seen the original (other than the reference to it in Louis de Funès' Le gendarme à New York - 1965 lol), but isn't it like extremely 50s, similar to say America Graffiti?
Can't they make new stories instead of digging up Boomer Bait from years past which probably have problematic stuff in their very conception because of age related issues and likely not being made by comrades? (a shoutout to Italian Neorealist Cinema of the 40s to 1982ish)
isn’t it like extremely 50s, similar to say America Graffiti?
I've seen both of them but that was a very long time ago. It was also in the fat-back tv era when movies were squashed and hacked to pieces to fit the tv and tv ad format. I don't remember them very well. But they certainly are both as American as can be: ultimate Americana. I thought America Graffiti was set in the 1960s.
Can’t they make new stories
Apparently they can't. I'm sort of amazed that movies are now just another serial format. For example - I won't be surprised if the Fast and Furious series continues a couple more decades. Or even well-beyond that. Audiences can't get enough of that high speed dreck. Will there be FAF (or son-of FAF fifty years from now?
This terrible shit is becoming intergenerational. If a couple conceived their child the night they saw FAF 1 - their kid would be twenty years old now.
I thought America Graffiti was set in the 1960s.
1962, which is pre-Beatles, so culturally still very much in the 1950s. I watched it last weekend actually and it still holds up.
There won't be Fast and Furious 50 years from now because we're headed towards a giant collapse but it'll probably be the last movie humanity makes
When there are lnly five people left on Earth living in a cave, it will survive in the form of a long bearded man making vroom vroom noises while wildly gesticulating with his hands in front of the others.
It's from the 50s, unlike American Graffiti or Grease which are 70s homages to the 50s.
https://youtube.com/shorts/WDAm5SMnLgg?feature=share
the guy in the second video is holding a smartphone
edit: one of them is a sketch about the corona virus vaccine
Yeah, I know. 1961 for West Side Story, with 1973 for America Graffiti, which is basically George Lucas reminiscing about the early 60s (1962) and 1978 for Grease, which I haven't seen.
I give it a week once people start talking about it. This happened recently with some ridley scott film that they never even advertised and he blamed them instantly
Ridley Scott doesn’t have “one regret” about his direction or Disney’s promotion of his 2021 historical drama “The Last Duel” — the box office failure is the fault of young people and their cellphones, he says.
“I think what it boils down to — what we’ve got today [are] the audiences who were brought up on these fucking cell phones. The millennian do not ever want to be taught anything unless you are told it on the cell phone,” Scott continued. “This is a broad stroke, but I think we’re dealing with it right now with Facebook. There is a misdirection that has happened where it’s given the wrong kind of confidence to this latest generation, I think.”My guy just huffing raw copium
“[In 1982], I made a film called ‘Blade Runner.’ It was my third movie. Pretty fuckin’ good,” he told Maron. “I was killed. I was killed by [film critic] Pauline Kael, who didn’t even meet me. She had never met me and I suddenly read this article in the New Yorker, which is a very classy magazine. I read it, and there’s a four page series of insults. I framed it. It’s in my office right now.”“I never read criticism. I never read critique ever again,” Scott added, “because she was so wrong. I was just way ahead of her.”lmao, what a baby
So is it just :trump-anguish: or do all powerful boomers write like that?
Just found out somebody somewhere didn't care for my movie, despite not meeting me first. I am now dead.
Laughing in Romeo + Juliet
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Romeo-and-Juliet-(1996)
the one with Pedo DiCrapio? no chance. best adaptation was Romeo Must Die (2000)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU86GFKmE60
it tried okay
(i do like r + j but my real fave is tromeo and juliet shhhh)
Pedo DiCrapio
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That’s just being a creep who probably has nothing of substance for an adult.
ok but it was actually really good. Great filmmaking. The new choreography and filmmaking for all the musical/dance numbers is really spectacular. And the sets/design are beautiful. Why are all you shitting on something you haven't seen? Also, watch the original too. It's great.
To those of you acting like the story is some romantic portrayal of how great the 50s were, it's quite literally the opposite? On top of all the racial tensions present from the original, this one brings in the tensions caused by notorious NYC city planner Robert Moses' slum removal polocies, and is like directly tied into the plot/setting in a really visually striking way.
All y'all be sounding like mfers who wear Drive jackets and say your favorite movie is Joker
y’all be sounding like mfers who wear Drive jackets and say your favorite movie is Joker
https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/rTsGREKoNH.jpg
IDK...musicals are just the cringiest of genres. It's like the Donald Trump's kitschy fake golden Luis XIV apartment of genres. Just can't stand it at all...
same. I also hate all musical tv show episodes, with the exception of the one from daria and one of the scrubs ones
Have there even been ads for the movie? I also remember having zero interest in this when it was first mentioned to the public that Spielberg wanted to remake the movie. Thought he was just gonna do Indiana Jones or whatever.
